Book Reviews : Robert R. Jay, Japanese Villagers—Social Relations in Rural Modjokuto. Cam bridge, Massachusetts, M.I.T. Press, 1969, xiii + 468 pp., figures, appen dices, index, $ 15.00
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Book ReviewsRobert R. Jay, Japanese Villagers—Social Relations in Rural Modjokuto. Cam bridge, Massachusetts, M.I.T. Press, 1969, xiii + 468 pp., figures, appen dices, index, $ 15.00 SAGE Publications, Inc.1972DOI: 10.1177/002071527201300212 Donald J.Tugby University of Queensland St. Lucia, Australia This is an account of social relations in rural Modjokuto where the author and his wife worked in 1953. Through no fault of the author or apparently of M.I.T. Press this book was published in 1969 although the manuscript was finished in 1962. It might well have been written in 1952 or even in 1932. Indeed the book is reminiscent of the rigorous Dutch ethnographic reporting encouraged by von Vollenhoven. It is a very solid piece of work, covering in ten chapters the topics of: social growth of the individual, the family, kinship and marriage, the community, social rank and corporate organization. The rigor characteristic of the work as a whole reaches its peak in the chapter on "Extended Kinsmen" in which the author goes conscientiously round the kinship clock. The author describes his method for handling data of different levels of generality in an early chapter. After mentioning Malinowski's method for relating categories of opinion and social role he